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PowerCli: Invoke-VMScript fails with “An error occurred while sending the request”
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you want to call some commands in a VM and you got the following error “An error occurred while sending the request”
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VMware: Set MAC Address of a kernel interface with PowerCli
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the New-VMHostNetworkAdapter offers the ability to set the MAC address while adding a new kernel interface. But this has a limitation. It always only a MAC within a range 00:50:56:00:00:00 – 00:50:56:3F:FF:FF.
If you try it even though you will get an error:
New-VMHostNetworkAdapter The MAC address is invalid or is not in the valid range 00:50:56:00:00:00 - 00:50:56:3F:FF:FF.
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VMware PowerCli: Eject CD/DVD Media from VMs
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when you have to eject or unmount DVD iso from your VMs, may be the iso files resists on datastore you want to remove, these one liner should help you.
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VMware: Execute scripts by Invoke-VMScript as Administrator
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this post addresses the issue that, when Windows UAC is enabled, you could not execute scripts with elevated Administrator permissions by PowerCli’s Invoke-VMScript. In my opinion when I execute scripts on VMs in more then 80% of these cases I need elevated user rights.
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